[Boomerang_Python]

I am thinking of starting to make a mod inspired by the tabletop game Warhammer 40k, I am quite new to this so ill probably need a bit help, and some tips, maybe someone care to join and can help in any way please post here then.

Anyways here is the first list of stuff I was thinking of adding to the mod:

3 teams:

Imperial Guard (Humans)
"Space" Orcs (Orcs in space)
Eldar (A bit like elves but in the future)


--Imperial Guard--


Construction Yard -- (Builds: Chimera dozer)


Power Station -- (Power plant)


Resource Drop Center -- (Drops funds every minute)


Outpost -- (Radar Station)


Gun emplacements -- (Stationary Gun Defence)


Trenches -- (Maybe)


Vehicle Plant -- (Builds - Chimera (Light armored transport vehicle)

- Leman Russ Battle Tank (Light tank)

- Leman Russ Vanquisher (Modified
LemanRuss Battle Tank with Extra armor and
bigger gun)

- Leman Russ Executioner (Modified
Leman Russ with extra armor and Laser like
weapon)

- Tank Hunter (Tank Destroyer)

- Basilisk (Artillery) (Maybe)

- Shadow Sword (Super Heavy tank) (Maybe)

- Baneblade (Super Heavy tank) (Maybe)


Barracks -- (Builds - Guardsman (Gets 2 in 1 // armed with lasguns)

- Stormtrooper (Hvy. Infantry // armed with
hellguns)

- Guardsmen with Heavy Bolter (2 soldiers
handling one Hvy. Machine gun)

- Guardsmen with Missile Launcher (2 soldiers
handling one Missile Launcher)

- Medic (Heals soldiers within radius // armed
with laspistol)

- Commisar/Officer (Dont know which one yet)
(armed with Close combat weapon and
Boltpistol)


Landing zone -- (Builds - Lightning AT (Anti Tank version) (Airplane)

- Lightning AA (Anti Air version) (Airplane)



--Orcs--


Konstruktion Booldin' -- (Builds: Modified Wartrukk with dozer blade)


Supply Hoze -- (Builds: Wartrukk)


Vehicle Plant -- (Builds - Warbuggy (Light armored vehicle)

- Scorcher (Flame tank)

- Wartrak (Faster than Warbuggy but less
armored)

- Warbike (Fastest, Cheapest, Almost no armor)

- Big Gunz Battery (Cannon battery)

- Killer Kan (Maybe)

- Dreadnought(Hvy. version of Killer Kan)(Maybe)


Barracks -- (Builds - Ork Nob

- Stormboyz

- 'Ard boyz

- Tank bustas

- Lootas (Can steal enemy vehicles)

- Warboss


Landing zone -- (Builds - Fighta bommerz (Airplane)

- Dethkopta (helicopter)




--Eldar--


**Not thought of yet**

[old_man_funk]

Being a WH40k fan myself, I say best of luck to you! If you need any help you'll probs find it here

[Boomerang_Python]

thx m8, just dont know where to start yet...

[Lestat]

No Grey Knights? :cry:

Personally I'm a WHFB player, but I may be picking 40K up now when the Eye of Terror has started. Why isn't there any Chaos? Maybe if you remove the Orks, but it would be hard to create Deamons. The infantry must cost a LOT more, and be much better then they are now.

[Rodman49]

There is already a Generals mod team.

http://www.gamingforums.com/forumdis...s=&forumid=489

They seem to be decent . . .
At least with 3d Vehicle Modelling

They don't seem to have . . .
Infantry models
Organization
2d Artists

I for one see little potential for a Warhammer 40k TC for Generals.

First, you must take into your account the fanbase. How many WH40k players do you know that have a top-of-the-line computers capable of playing Generals effectively? A small fraction of individuals - you'd probably need a 2.4 Ghz with 512 RAM and a GeForce 4 ti 4200 to be able to play the game (not even considering advanced particle effects of new weapons) with no slowdown - in singleplayer alone.

Second, you need to look at the Generals game engine. Honestly it's a pile of shit. It's clunky and has bad netcode. You also need to run the game at 1600x1200 for it to look decent which will probably make you lose another 6-8 FPS. And in quickmatch multiplayer the game must be run with that horrid 800x600 resolution. Online is impossible to play, why settle for lag when there are soooo many better 3d game engines.

Third you need examine the support EA gives to Generals, barely any at all, remember that singleplayer mission competition? Well they never announced a winner. Remember EA's Gen Dev site? No, that's what I thought. What about the ladder's for fan sites, weren't they supposed to be available when the game shipped? Even consider world builder, many features and some units/structures are missing from it.

Just think about it, Generals just sucks ass for modding, plain and simple. This is what my team looked at when we decided to keep modding RA2 . . . it's potential mod fanbase is larger, is technically superior, and has just about as much support (aka none).

If you want to go 3d - check out WCIII . . . It's just better - a lot better.

[SilverMobius]

Originally Posted by Rodman49

They don't seem to have . . .
Organization
Common courtesy
Intelligence
Any idea what they are doing

Fixed.

[jmb8785]

I say go for it. I have not really gone into deapth over 40k but I played fantasy and bought the imperial guard book, so i know a little. But I think its a good idea. If you get good/well produced models and good skins the mod will be awesome.

jmb8785

[SilverMobius]

Originally Posted by jmb8785

If you get good/well produced models and good skins the mod will be awesome.
jmb8785

Definately, I say go for it. As long as you don't plan too much for yourself when you are still a n00b (read:Mongoose) you can really make some cool things.

[Rodman49]

I'll take it you don't like that team SilverMobius . . .

So did they actually get decent infantry models or did you just forget to add it to that list you corrected?

[old_man_funk]

They got some good **** going down there....



oldmanfunk